Silent looms
Subtitle: women and production in a Guatemalan town
By: Tracy Bachrach Ehlers ; foreword by June Nash.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Women in development -- Guatemala -- Case studies; Women -- Guatemala -- Social conditions -- Case studies; Matriarchy -- Guatemala -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Other titles: Women and production in a Guatemalan town
Description: "Based on new fieldwork in 1997, Tracy Bachrach Ehlers has updated her study of the effects of economic development on the women weavers of San Pedro Sacatepequez. Revisiting many of the women she interviewed in the 1970s and 1980s and revising her earlier hopeful assessment of women's entrepreneurial opportunities, Ehlers demonstrates that development and commercial growth in the region have benefited men at the expense of women."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-196) and index.